PERSONAL ITEMS

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume L, Issue 175, 3 November 1917, Page 4

PERSONAL ITEMS

News has been received that Private J. R. Page, third son of Mr and Mia James Page, of the Globe Hotel, tapu. wfis 'killed' In action 12th. The deceased, who was 33 jTpara of age, was attached to the .Twentyfourth and • }e£t New Zealand 'April..of this yeah w S a nephew of Mrs Alex- Wilk 1 ©, Py"! Nelson. '■ "7 -? Mr James Armstrong,. of strVet, 'has • been- advised that his youngest- son, Private'- M. ' strong, Twenty-fourth Rem forcemeats, was' wounded • ah'd s gassed on ■ October 17th. . Mr iArmstrong's second .son; Private N. 0. Armstrong, Twentieth Reinforcements, recently lost his left arm. 1 - . ' " . ' . ' Constable J. Sheary, of Jlichrtiond; received 'word yesterday that his.- sort, , Corporal J. E. Sheary, who left Zealand with the Eleventh Remfoffcements, was killed in action on October 12th. Prior 1 to enlistment, . depeasaa was on the staff of the Poet Office at Greymouth, and was a very popular otsc(?r. t ' 1 y. Confirmation has just been received by-«M«j.-;.Wi H. Smith, the'well-Jtnown [Manawatu and Rangitikei journalist, of the death in action of his json, Lit. Keith Smith. The. deceased was '» .capable, journalist, and duties of l aub-editor, under his father, .qn the Manawatu Times and IMai'ton • Adyqcate. He enlisted early' m the wir, 'relinquishing a commission to get away: ,with the 2nd Reinforcements, but , re<?eiwd' his' commission in Egypt.. tie i returned to p New Zealand, and .jfrined the 21st Reinforcements, and had beeti ' M on the' West' ftont some time before : Im d,eath. I/leut. Smith is and old ; J}oy of' the Nqlson College. » :